DNA barcoding of mammals in Mexico: implications for biodiversity
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
The Open Zoology Journal, vol. 5, special issue 1
Page(s):
18-26
Publisher:
Publication Place:
ISBN/ISSN:
/1874-3366
Notes:
An online open-access journal. doi: 10.2174/1874336601205010018
Reference for:
Chaetodipus dalquesti
Chaetodipus dalquesti: Geographic Information
Geographic Division:
Middle America
Jurisdiction/Origin:
Mexico / Native
Chaetodipus dalquesti: Comments
Comment:
Status: IUCN - Lower Risk (lc) as included in C. arenarius
Comment:
Comments: Considered a subspecies of C. arenarius by Patton (1993b), Williams et al. (1993), and Patton and Alvarez-Castañeda (1999), with which it shares an identical karyotype (Hafner and Hafner, 1983). However, both mitochondrial DNA (Riddle et al., 2000b) and morphology (D. J. Hafner, pers. comm.) suggest separate species status, although a complete analysis of the relationships of dalquesti to arenarius has not as yet been made
Comment:
Álvarez-Castañeda & Rios (2011) and Álvarez-Castañeda et al. (2012) indicate that several subspecies from Chaetodipus arenarios (e.g., C. a. sublucidus (Nelson and Goldman, 1929) and C. a. ammophilus (Osgood, 1929)) belong in C. dalquesti (Roth, 1976). However, this would require changing the species name according to priority, such that the three (or more) would instead be subspecies of C. ammophilus (Osgood, 1907), or of whatever the senior available name is, due to nomenclatural rules